Facilitate cooperation between government and industry organizations to address national safety, mobility, and cybersecurity issues

Capabilities

Safe reliability analysis of automotive electronic systems

Safety analysis of rechargeable energy storage systems

Motor vehicle crash analysis

Development of crash countermeasure concepts

State-of-the-art technology assessment

Development of performance requirements for safety systems

Objective testing of vehicle safety systems

Evaluation of field operational tests

Simulation of system-vehicle-driver interactions

Safety benefits estimation

SafetyHAT Transportation Safety Hazard Analysis Tool

The transportation systems Safety Hazard Analysis Tool (SafetyHAT) is a software tool that facilitates hazard analysis using the System-Theoretic Process Analysis (STPA). STPA is a hazard identification method based on a top-down system engineering approach and control systems theory. While some familiarity with STPA is expected before using this tool, one of the primary goals of SafetyHAT is to help safety analysts become proficient with the STPA method. SafetyHAT includes transportation-oriented guide phrases and causal factors that tailor the STPA method to transportation systems.